I was kind of curious. When I worked at a NOC in '99-01, we had a few people with face tats, mohawks, and brow piercings. Company didn't care, because they were very skilled. My next job, I was told if I dyed my hair blue, I'd be given one day off with no pay to have a professional fix it or I'd be fired, although they did have a few techs with full sleeve tattoos.

My current job just went to casual dress. I have no idea on blue hair, brow piercings, or face tattoos. Suspect a frowny face on the HR's part. Heh.

No policy in our handbook (I still have a copy!) but also not one single person in a staff of 150+ who has any of those things, even at our industrial site. I assume that these things are getting filtered out at the interview level, rather than by any official policy.

We have plenty of people with piercings and quite a few with visible tattoos.

A couple jobs ago, I worked closely with a girl who had ear studs, always-dyed-some-crazy-color hair, either spiked or something similar, two full sleeve tattoos, pierced nose, navel, and eyebrow (I assume more we couldn't see), Doc Marten combat boots, and the associated fashion you'd imagine with someone like that. She was cool, and one hell of an MS sysadmin.

Frankly, if you're in IT and don't interact with the majority of the userbase on a daily basis, I don't really see what it matters how you dress or look. As long as you're hygenic, you're good in my book.

I haven't a clue. Most people around here dress conventionally. There's one woman who presents masculine, but it's still just slacks and a button-up. I have to imagine that anything very wild would result in a discussion with a manager, but I don't know if there's any policy beyond a certain level of professional attire when possibly encountering clients/prospects.

When I started here I was told that for my position it was 'business casual', and that a decent golf shirt with khakis would be fine. Then one day it became 'not fine', but when I went to look for a dress code policy I found out that it is completely at my manager's discretion. For a time I had to switch to wool / wool-like dress pants, and long-sleeved business shirts.

With the new manager she said short sleeved and / or collared shirts were fine.

I have arm tats, but cannot personally stand jewelry (I hate the feel of metal on my skin / any restriction against my neck) so I will never have a piercing, again. I feel that hair / nose piercings would be fine, but if another manager took over that they could put any rule in place they felt necessary.

Which is funny because none of my role is outward facing, and I rarely deal with any employers directly.

I literally have some blue hair. The boss found it charming when she saw it. I suspect creative piercings will not go over well in an interview. The office is quite Northwest Casual but people need to be able to dress up for client site visits.

Basically "don't be a knob". Or "don't whine if your facial tattoo, while possible awesome, doesn't really mesh with your continued employment in a customer-facing role since we're not in a business where facial tattoos really fit."

While we don't have a policy. However if you are customer facing, it wouldn't go well. You'd probably be moved to another position or let go. Internal only, it would probably be fine but might limit options in terms of jobs to move to.

No, the poster isn't watching any Mad Men. No, it's not a pant-suit. It is easy to assume this person is a young, shorter, guy. The clothes would not be found in the womens department of a store, they are not cut to flatter a female figure.

I was kind of curious. When I worked at a NOC in '99-01, we had a few people with face tats, mohawks, and brow piercings. Company didn't care, because they were very skilled. My next job, I was told if I dyed my hair blue, I'd be given one day off with no pay to have a professional fix it or I'd be fired, although they did have a few techs with full sleeve tattoos.

My current job just went to casual dress. I have no idea on blue hair, brow piercings, or face tattoos. Suspect a frowny face on the HR's part. Heh.

no issues here with hair, piercings, tats, etc. quite a few have random stuff like full tatoos or nose/ear/eyebrow stuff. some here seem to dye their hair every other night it seems.

it's also casual here so basically jeans, shirt, shoes is the dress code.

it's fairly conservative here; I think I have the most piercings of anyone I've seen here, and I only have four ear piercings, three lobe, and one cartilage. Dress is business casual, and jeans on Fridays.

My piercings didn't seem to cause even a second glance during my interviews, so I doubt anything tame would bother them, but very visible tats or piercings would probably cause some managers to grumble.

We don't even have a handbook. The general rule is "look good and don't be an asshole".

I'm quoting myself here, but really it's because I'm actually working on our company handbook and think this is all it needs to be. Cover, table of contents, and then one page with some gorgeous font in large/thick letters that just reads:

I was kind of curious. When I worked at a NOC in '99-01, we had a few people with face tats, mohawks, and brow piercings. Company didn't care, because they were very skilled. My next job, I was told if I dyed my hair blue, I'd be given one day off with no pay to have a professional fix it or I'd be fired, although they did have a few techs with full sleeve tattoos.

My current job just went to casual dress. I have no idea on blue hair, brow piercings, or face tattoos. Suspect a frowny face on the HR's part. Heh.

no issues here with hair, piercings, tats, etc. quite a few have random stuff like full tatoos or nose/ear/eyebrow stuff. some here seem to dye their hair every other night it seems.

it's also casual here so basically jeans, shirt, shoes is the dress code.

call center so no actual face to face customers.

I worked at a building that was primarily a call center but had a few other groups that were development or operations orientated. Because a newly minted VP decided that there was a possibility of a customer showing up at the building everyone had to dress business casual.

Wore a tie and dress shoes while moving servers because I didn't know about OSHA safety standards.

Where I work now, it's pretty casual, I actually dress better than my bosse's boss.

At any given time, we are subject to surprise visits from regulatory agencies and customers. Thankfully, dark wash jeans and anything better than a standard t-shirt are acceptable for lab dwellers. We are also required to wear close toed non-vented shoes, and jeans with holes are prohibited. That's a safety requirement more than anything, though.

Some yahoo wearing a beanie did result in a banning of hats.

The higher ups are much more concerned that we follow our SOPs than they are we dress all fancy-like.

No, the poster isn't watching any Mad Men. No, it's not a pant-suit. It is easy to assume this person is a young, shorter, guy. The clothes would not be found in the womens department of a store, they are not cut to flatter a female figure.

Why didn't you just say so?

I have a coworker who wears mens clothing, and while she's a bit of a butch lesbian, she isn't usually mistaken for a boy. I don't see any problem with how she dresses, or does our boss who puts her in front of clients. I would consider mens pants if they fit me better, which isn't the case. d:

I'm trying to indicate to you that there is a wide gradient between 'wearing mens clothes' and 'deliberately looking like a man'. When one says "presents masculine" and then says "but it's still just slacks and a button-up" this does not indicate a strong "presentation" to me, it sounded instead like one step up from 'wearing the boyfriend's pants and jacket' or a different cut to the distinctly feminine clothes I wear every day.

Here at my office in the DC area, it's slacks and a polo at minimum. You can get away with a solid color long sleeve shirt, maybe a hoodie on a cold day. In a building of a couple thousand people, no interesting hair, no visible piercings except for ears, and only a few visible tattoos (usually inner low arm).

"Just slacks and a button-up," was a relative comparison versus tattoos and vivid hair. It's "just" because it's what over half the people in the office are wearing anyhow (assuming unequal gender distribution). I should have been more clear to that effect, I apologize. The take-away is that the company accepts some degree of gender-bending, in certain directions, but nobody has blue hair. I've seen tats slip from under short sleeves, but anybody with a full tattoo sleeve keeps them covered.

I work with a bunch of lawyers, but we try and maintain a business casual workplace. Everyone needs to be a bit more dressy on days where we have clients or training, but we're pretty tolerant. We've got a few people with noticeable tattoos. I suspect that decision limited some of their career options, but it's not prohibited by our policy.

We did, however, have an odd rule added to our dress code by one of the offices that slipped into the more general policy: "No sneakers, western style boots, or sandals are allowed on any business day." It cracks me up every time, because I can't imagine anyone in NYC showing up wearing them. Turns out, it was added because boots do bad things to the floors in one of the offices.

* Men must wear a tucked-in, collared shirt and pants. * Women are reminded that leggings are not pants. * Shorts and sun dresses are not allowed. * Casual straps or sandals are not allowed.* No gym clothes for anyone (unless going to / from the gym).* Exceptions permitted for medical necessity.* On weekends, please don't come to work naked.[/list]

Because every employee is a representative of the Company in the eyes of the public, it isimportant to report to work properly groomed and wearing appropriate attire. Dress must beappropriate for the environment and the business being conducted, which includes meetings onor off premises and interactions with company visitors, clients, etc.We have regular visitors from around the world. It is often appropriate to wear moretraditional business attire for meetings with clients or other outside guests. In addition, certaindepartments may establish more specific dress or uniform requirements for business and/orsafety reasons. You should comply with the requirements of your position.With the approval of Human Resources, local or departmental management may make site-,occasion- or department-specific policy on appropriate dress, determine when someone isdressed inappropriately and take appropriate corrective measures.Any employee who requires an exception to the Dress Code based on a bona fide religiousbelief, ethnicity or a disability should contact their HR Business Partner.

I work with a bunch of lawyers, but we try and maintain a business casual workplace. Everyone needs to be a bit more dressy on days where we have clients or training, but we're pretty tolerant. We've got a few people with noticeable tattoos. I suspect that decision limited some of their career options, but it's not prohibited by our policy.

We did, however, have an odd rule added to our dress code by one of the offices that slipped into the more general policy: "No sneakers, western style boots, or sandals are allowed on any business day." It cracks me up every time, because I can't imagine anyone in NYC showing up wearing them. Turns out, it was added because boots do bad things to the floors in one of the offices.

* Men must wear a tucked-in, collared shirt and pants. * Women are reminded that leggings are not pants. * Shorts and sun dresses are not allowed. * Casual straps or sandals are not allowed.* No gym clothes for anyone (unless going to / from the gym).* Exceptions permitted for medical necessity.* On weekends, please don't come to work naked.[/list]

Does that mean my "Northwest Style Boots" aka hiking boots are ok? d: (yes I wear them around NYC any time I'm not going to a special event (and only some of those) or a client site).

I work in a pretty conservative place. I think that, while something like an eyebrow piercing or visible tatoos or crazy facial hair is not banned, it is considered undesirable. It will be more difficult for people to take you seriously in a professional way with that kind of stuff.

It's just the culture, I guess. Customers want the people who work at my company to be very serious and technical. Even the sales folks are pretty subdued.